I get a decent amount of emails asking for knowledge on the correct color of both bumper brackets and bumper supports for the ’67 Beetle. It’s L91 silver.
Recently, a reader mentioned that he was having a hard time finding a complete L91 silver set. I’ve only seen venders offer silver in the brackets and black in the bumper supports. My assumption would be to please both the early and late crowd. Some solutions…
I ran across a fantastic article awhile back from Graham Smith about the recreation of vintage VW logo specifications. Graham was kind enough to have his information and talents showcased with 1967beetle.com. Being a visual designer myself, I have a world of respect for Graham. Why the recreation?
“No real reason other than I thought it would be a fun project to work on, but also the original lacks some quality and can’t be enlarged and printed out too well. I thought that if I reproduced it, it would allow me a up close view of how this was originally created.
It’s not until you tear it apart and start looking at all the various line weights, arrows, text and the sobering realisation: we didn’t always have copy and paste and mathematical precision based artwork tools at our disposal. It’s also nice to know there is now a detailed replica of these logo specification.”
The original was crafted by hand, ink and ruler.
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Here is a bit of vintage Volkswagen literature I’ve enjoyed over the years. Some of these are original copies my grandfather bought back in the 60s and 70s. All highly recommended.
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